biography

I was born in Nam Dinh, a city in North Vietnam, 60 miles south of Hanoi. I spent my childhood in the countryside for a few years being evacuated during the Vietnam War. In 1975, I was admitted to a special mathematical boarding high school at the Hanoi University of Education. In 1978, I got top score of the Vietnamese Team and won a silver medal at the 20th International Math Olympiads in Bucarest. In 1979, I received full scholarship to study mathematics in Belarus. Upon my graduation with the highest score, I needed only one year to defend my Ph.D. and another two years to complete my Doctor of Sciences degree, at 26. Upon returning to Vietnam, I joined the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics. In 1994, I was appointed Associated Professor , and in 1999 promoted to full Professor at the Kuwait University. In 2003, I moved to the University of West Georgia to occupy the only established endowment chair. I am married with a daughter and a son.








					University Education • 1987 D.Sc. (Mathematics and Physics), Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus • 1985 Ph.D. (Mathematics and Physics), Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus • 1984 M.Sc. with honor (Mathematics), Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus Employment Record • 2003 – to date : Professor, Marion Crider Distinguished Chair of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of West Georgia, USA • 1999 – 2003 : Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, Kuwait • 1994 – 1999 : Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, Kuwait • 1993 – 1994 : Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Free University of Berlin, Germany • 1989 – 1992 : Senior Researcher, Hanoi Institute of Mathematics,Vietnam • 1985 – 1988 : Postdoctoral Fellow, Belarusian State University, USSR
	I was born in Nam Dinh, a city in North Vietnam, 60 miles south of Hanoi. I spent my childhood in the countryside for a few years being evacuated during the Vietnam War. In 1975, I was admitted to a special mathematical boarding high school at the Hanoi University of Education. In 1978, I got top score of the Vietnamese Team and won a silver medal at the 20th International Math Olympiads in Bucarest. In 1979, I received full scholarship to study mathematics in Belarus. Upon my graduation with the highest score, I needed only one year to defend my Ph.D. and another two years to complete my Doctor of Sciences degree, at 26. Upon returning to Vietnam, I joined the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics. In 1994, I was appointed Associated Professor , and in 1999 promoted to full Professor at the Kuwait University. In 2003, I moved to the University of West Georgia to occupy the only established endowment chair. I am married with a daughter and a son.


	Scholarships and awards Awards • Four times Prize at Vietnamese Mathematical School Olympiads 1972, 1975, 1977, 1978. • Silver Medal at XX International Mathematical School Olympiads, held in Bucarest, Romania 1978. • Three times First Place at Belarussian Mathematical Student Olympiads. • Third Place at USSR Mathematical Student Olympiads. • Best Research Award of Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, 1998-1999, 500 KD prize (1650 USD). Scholarships • 1979-1988 Vietnamese Government Scholarship at the Belarussian State University, Minsk, Former USSR • 1993-1994 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Free University of Berlin, Germany Research Grants • Kuwait University Grant SM 112: Paley-Wiener theorem,weighted inequalities, integral transforms, 5/95 – 5/97 • Kuwait University Grant SM 123: Asymptotics of singular values and inverse problems for some integral operators, 10/95 – 10/96 • Kuwait University Grant SM 187: Characterization of certain integral transformations, 9/99 – 9/00 • Kuwait University Grant SM 05/00: On an eigenfunction expansion associated with a singular Sturm-Liouville problem, 9/00 – 9/01 • Kuwait University Grant SM 08/01: Paley-Wiener theorem for Dunkl transform 4/02 – 4/03